Monday, 26 November 2012

Fois Gras Producer Faces False Advertising Charges

The largest fois gras manufacturer in the
country is being named in a new lawsuit that Alabama business dispute lawyers find very interesting.The lawsuit claims that the company
engaged in deceptive advertising by labeling its fois gras production practices
as “humane.”

The lawsuit has been filed by the Animal
Legal Defense Fund against Hudson Valley Fois Gras.The company claims to be the largest producer of fois gras
in the country.In its advertising,
Hudson Valley Fois Gras claims that its fois gras is “humane.”However, the Animal Legal Defense Fund
lawsuit alleges that that claim is completely false, because producing fois
gras involves force-feeding ducks, which amounts to torture. The lawsuit claims
that the procedures being followed by Hudson Valley Fois Gras are far from
humane.

According to the lawsuit, the process of
force-feeding ducks at Hudson Valley Fois Gras is painful, traumatic and amounts
to torture.Force-feeding is
painful for the ducks, and is physically injurious to them.Very often, when a bird is force-fed
more food than it requires or wants, the result can be fatal.

Force-feeding is common in the fois gras
industry, and usually the process begins when the ducks are about 13 weeks
old.This force-feeding causes the
ducks’ livers to swell to up to 8 times their natural size.However, up to 4% of the ducks die from
the force-feeding even before they're brought to slaughter.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund is being joined
in the lawsuit by The Regal Vegan, a vegan catering company.According to Regal Vegan, it produces a
fois gras that contains no animal products, and is completely humane.However, because Hudson Valley Fois Gras
promotes its product as humane, consumers flock to buy Hudson Valley products,
and not The Regal Vegan’s.